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Current experiments

- collaborative project with KEW garden on conifer cavitation resistance

- relationship between hydraulic properties and wood anatomy

- phylogenetic constraints on cavitation resistance and wood density

- genetic variability of cavitation resistance in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster, France)

- genetic differentiation of cavitation resistance among Pinus hartwegii provenances (Mexico)

- comparison of cavitation resistance among CO2 fertilization (Duke face)

Visiting people

- Steven Jansen (July 2009) from ULM University: Invited professor

- Katline CHARRA-VASKO from Innsbruck (October 2010): needle cavitation resistance

- ISSOUFOU Hassane Bil-Assanou (March 2011) from Abdou Moumouni University (Niger): drought tolerance of Guiera senegalensis

- Short visits in July 2011: Bernhard Schuldt from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Jianming Xue from the Scion Research Institute (New Zealand)

- Ariane Cosiaux from CIRAD Montpellier (July 2011): drought tolerance of African woody species

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Cavitating the conifers of the world

People involved

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Build your own CAVITRON (see photos below)

Just contact me to buy a « honeycomb » rotor (2200 €)

Cavitron 1 (max 7500 rpm)

Sylvain DelzonCavitron 2 (for drought resistant species)

Cavitron 3 (the new generation of CAVITRON)

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